I had a front row seat at the Blur v Oasis frenzy – here’s what a new play gets bang on and bafflingly wrong

‘Art-school trendies v working-class heroes’ … Oscar Lloyd as Damon Albarn and George Usher as Liam Gallagher. Photograph: Helen Murray

“At this point, it’s Israel/Palestine. Rangers/Celtic. No one remembers how it got started. All they know is, ‘I like this team and I don’t like that team.’ The whole country’s gone fucking mad. It’s what happens in a civil war – everyone starts thinking with the blood.”

***